so, let us not be
slow to obey the command to "go, teach all nations." Where the need
is greatest let us be found gladly obeying the MASTER'S command. For
it is in the harvest-field, it is among the reapers, that we shall
find Him.

There is no Christian service in which faith must not be in lively
exercise. At home, abroad, connected with this branch of GOD'S work
or that, without faith it is impossible to please Him. Paul may
plant, Apollos water; GOD only gives the increase. Every true
minister of GOD, every true missionary, every true Sunday-school
teacher and Christian worker is a faith-worker. But in the foreign
field workers are peculiarly cast on GOD. There are special dangers
and difficulties, special weaknesses and needs that bring GOD very
near--nearer than most of the workers realised Him to be while they
remained at home. And to those who have gone out without human
guarantee of support, who do not know when the next help may reach
them, not its amount, there is an additional link with the great
loving heart of our FATHER and our GOD that is unspeakably precious
and welcome.

May we not say that in ever position of life when we are weak in
ourselves, our friends, our circumstances, then are we strongest in
Him? And when in our great needs, for ourselves or for the souls
around us, we lay hold on GOD and say, "My soul, wait thou ONLY upon
GOD; for my expectation is from Him," what rest and security and
certainty come into the waiting soul. And ah! When labouring in this
spirit how words like those of our heavenly Boaz come home to the
heart. "The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee
of the LORD GOD of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust."
Happy toiler in China! Happy toiler at Home! If it is sometimes dark,
the shadow is but the shadow of His wing, under which thou art
abiding, under which thou art come to trust.

We will not prolong this meditation. He who comforted and blessed the
lonely gleaner while the harvest lasted, became her husband when the
harvest toil was past. It was thus the LORD recompensed her work.
Israel was not blessed apart from her, for David the deliverer, and
Solomon the glory of Israel, were born of the seed which Boaz had
through her. Soon shall come the glorious day of the espousals of
CHRIST and His Church. With her He will come to deliver Israel and to
judge the world and even the angels. Ruth little knew the honour and
happiness awaiting her